Monday, March 5, 2012

DIY- Rainbow rice krispies

This Sunday our church held it's monthly potluck and of course, I really wanted to bring them. Since I already brought them to the previous month's potluck (I told you they were my favorite dessert), I figured I should probably shnazz them up. That's when I thought to make some St. Patrick's day themed rice krispy treats. Oooh.

To make them, I tweaked the basic rice krispy recipe. After melting the marshmallows, I divided the goo into 6 different containers. Then, I quickly added food coloring into each of the containers (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.) Hubby quickly followed behind and stirred the food coloring into the melted marshmallows while I added rice krispies into the mixture.

It was crazy. I felt like Lucy, rushing to eat the chocolates off the conveyer belt. Hubby was mixing, I was mixing, rice krispies were falling onto the floor, the marshmallows were hardening a little too quickly, and in the midst of it all we actually broke a spoon.

As each color finished, I quickly scooped the sticky mixture into one of four mini bread loaf pans that I previously buttered. I added color on top of color and then got these:

Ooooh. Here I am slicing a colorful ricey log.

Rainbows for everyone! (Note: Pot of gold not included.)

Looking back, I probably should have just made one color first, then made one layer of colorful rice krispies, and then moved onto each of the following colors. The layers would have been neater and things wouldn't have gotten so out of hand. Oh well, there's always next time!

5 comments:

haha they were always your favorite! i remember making them for you and you gobbling them up! :) did you use the scientific way of making them and dividing all the marshmallows and rice crispies? or you did the asian way--"eyeballing it"